France come back to beat Iceland 3-2

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PARIS, May 27 (Xinhua) -- France struggled on their first warm-up for Euro 2012 as they came back from two goals down to beat Iceland 3-2 on Sunday at Valenciennes, France.

 

Birkir Bjarnason and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson put the visitors 2-0 ahead in 28th and 33 minutes, as France looked completely at a loss against their lowly ranked opponents¹ in the first half.

 

France gathered up the second half as Mathieu Debuchy eased² the burden of coach Laurent Blanc with a 52th-minute goal to make it 2-1.

 

Franck Ribery levelled it up with a lob, the first goal for his country since Arpil, 2009, and the game seemed to end with a draw.

 

It was Valencia back Adil Rami lift France's hope when he received a knockdown from Olivier Giroud and powered in the winner with only three minutes to go.

 

France extended³ their unbeaten run to 19 matches and will face Serbia on Thursday and Estonia on June 5.

 

The European Championships will be kicked off on June 8 at Ukraine and Poland with France to face England on June 11 in a Group D matchup.?

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